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Emperor of Bones 
Creature — Skeleton Noble
Oracle Text
At the beginning of combat on your turn, exile up to one target card from a graveyard.
: Adapt 2.
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, put a creature card exiled with this creature onto the battlefield under your control with a finality counter on it. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
: Adapt 2.
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, put a creature card exiled with this creature onto the battlefield under your control with a finality counter on it. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.Format Legality
ModernLegacyVintageDuel Commander
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Emperor of Bones, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modern | 33 | 3 | 430 | 2.8 |
| Duel Commander | 3 | 1 | 210 | 1 |
| Legacy | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1.3 |
Details
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 2
- Collector #
- 453
Non-foilFoil
Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Emperor of Bones
7
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (30)
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Kolaghan's Command
- 1 Dismember
- 1 Abrade
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Remand
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Sauron's Ransom
- 1 Flame of Anor
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Terminate
- 1 Galvanic Discharge
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Tarfire
- 1 Unholy Heat
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Stifle
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Drown in the Loch
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Mental Misstep
Lands (37)
- 1 Arena of Glory
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Haunted Ridge
- 1 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Riverpyre Verge
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Seat of the Synod
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Steam Vents
- 1 Stormcarved Coast
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Thundering Falls
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Vault of Whispers
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Fear of Missing Out
- 1 Snapcaster Mage
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Grief
- 1 Detective's Phoenix
- 1 Hullbreacher
- 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
- 1 Subtlety
- 1 Chaos Defiler
- 1 Anger
- 1 Pyrogoyf
- 1 Fury
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
- 1 Nethergoyf
- 1 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
- 1 Baleful Strix
- 1 Psychic Frog
Sorceries (9)
Instants (30)
- 1 Galvanic Discharge
- 1 Unholy Heat
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Kolaghan's Command
- 1 Dismember
- 1 Abrade
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Remand
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Sauron's Ransom
- 1 Flame of Anor
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Terminate
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Tarfire
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Stifle
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Drown in the Loch
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Mental Misstep
Artifacts (1)
Lands (37)
- 1 Arena of Glory
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Haunted Ridge
- 1 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Riverpyre Verge
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Seat of the Synod
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Steam Vents
- 1 Stormcarved Coast
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Thundering Falls
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Vault of Whispers
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Fear of Missing Out
- 1 Snapcaster Mage
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Grief
- 1 Detective's Phoenix
- 1 Hullbreacher
- 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
- 1 Subtlety
- 1 Chaos Defiler
- 1 Anger
- 1 Pyrogoyf
- 1 Fury
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
- 1 Nethergoyf
- 1 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
- 1 Baleful Strix
- 1 Psychic Frog
Sorceries (9)
Instants (30)
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Kolaghan's Command
- 1 Dismember
- 1 Abrade
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Remand
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Sauron's Ransom
- 1 Flame of Anor
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Terminate
- 1 Galvanic Discharge
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Tarfire
- 1 Unholy Heat
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Stifle
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Drown in the Loch
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Mental Misstep
Artifacts (1)
Lands (37)
- 1 Arena of Glory
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Haunted Ridge
- 1 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Riverpyre Verge
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Seat of the Synod
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Steam Vents
- 1 Stormcarved Coast
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Thundering Falls
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Vault of Whispers
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (16)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (30)
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Kolaghan's Command
- 1 Dismember
- 1 Abrade
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Remand
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Sauron's Ransom
- 1 Flame of Anor
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Terminate
- 1 Galvanic Discharge
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Tarfire
- 1 Unholy Heat
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Stifle
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Drown in the Loch
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Mental Misstep
Lands (37)
- 1 Arena of Glory
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Haunted Ridge
- 1 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Riverpyre Verge
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Seat of the Synod
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Steam Vents
- 1 Stormcarved Coast
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Thundering Falls
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Vault of Whispers
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Sorceries (3)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (7)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (36)
- 1 Bomat Courier
- 1 Accursed Marauder
- 1 Callous Sell-Sword
- 1 Dark Confidant
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
- 1 Marionette Apprentice
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Sunset Saboteur
- 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
- 1 Fear of Missing Out
- 1 Harmonic Prodigy
- 1 Loyal Apprentice
- 1 Seasoned Pyromancer
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER
- 1 Warren Soultrader
- 1 Grief
- 1 Broadside Bombardiers
- 1 Detective's Phoenix
- 1 Skittering Precursor
- 1 Voldaren Thrillseeker
- 1 Fury
- 1 Greater Gargadon
- 1 Bloodsoaked Champion
- 1 Carrion Feeder
- 1 Cult Conscript
- 1 Forsaken Miner
- 1 Gravecrawler
- 1 Nethergoyf
- 1 Stalactite Stalker
- 1 Viscera Seer
- 1 Bloodtithe Harvester
- 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
- 1 Stadium Headliner
- 1 Voldaren Epicure
Sorceries (6)
Instants (9)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (38)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Barbarian Ring
- 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blightstep Pathway
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Den of the Bugbear
- 1 Graven Cairns
- 1 Great Furnace
- 1 Haunted Ridge
- 1 Hive of the Eye Tyrant
- 1 Lazotep Quarry
- 1 Mana Confluence
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mount Doom
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
- 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
- 1 Starting Town
- 1 Sulfurous Springs
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Vault of Whispers
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (16)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (16)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (7)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (30)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (16)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (29)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (8)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (7)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (30)
- 1 Abrade
- 1 Dismember
- 1 Galvanic Discharge
- 1 Unholy Heat
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Kolaghan's Command
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Remand
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Sauron's Ransom
- 1 Flame of Anor
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Terminate
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Tarfire
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Stifle
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Drown in the Loch
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Mental Misstep
Lands (37)
- 1 Arena of Glory
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Haunted Ridge
- 1 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Riverpyre Verge
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Seat of the Synod
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Steam Vents
- 1 Stormcarved Coast
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Thundering Falls
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Vault of Whispers
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (36)
- 1 Bomat Courier
- 1 Accursed Marauder
- 1 Callous Sell-Sword
- 1 Dark Confidant
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
- 1 Marionette Apprentice
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Sunset Saboteur
- 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
- 1 Fear of Missing Out
- 1 Harmonic Prodigy
- 1 Loyal Apprentice
- 1 Seasoned Pyromancer
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER
- 1 Warren Soultrader
- 1 Grief
- 1 Broadside Bombardiers
- 1 Detective's Phoenix
- 1 Skittering Precursor
- 1 Voldaren Thrillseeker
- 1 Fury
- 1 Greater Gargadon
- 1 Bloodsoaked Champion
- 1 Carrion Feeder
- 1 Cult Conscript
- 1 Forsaken Miner
- 1 Gravecrawler
- 1 Nethergoyf
- 1 Stalactite Stalker
- 1 Viscera Seer
- 1 Bloodtithe Harvester
- 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
- 1 Stadium Headliner
- 1 Voldaren Epicure
Sorceries (6)
Instants (9)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (38)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Barbarian Ring
- 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blightstep Pathway
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Den of the Bugbear
- 1 Graven Cairns
- 1 Great Furnace
- 1 Haunted Ridge
- 1 Hive of the Eye Tyrant
- 1 Lazotep Quarry
- 1 Mana Confluence
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mount Doom
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
- 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
- 1 Starting Town
- 1 Sulfurous Springs
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Vault of Whispers
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (33)
- 1 Accursed Marauder
- 1 Frenzied Baloth
- 1 Headliner Scarlett
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
- 1 Cankerbloom
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
- 1 Tarmogoyf
- 1 Endurance
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Opposition Agent
- 1 Grief
- 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
- 1 Broadside Bombardiers
- 1 Magus of the Moon
- 1 Chaos Defiler
- 1 Pyrogoyf
- 1 Fury
- 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
- 1 Oliphaunt
- 1 Wight of the Reliquary
- 1 Deathrite Shaman
- 1 Arbor Elf
- 1 Birds of Paradise
- 1 Delighted Halfling
- 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
- 1 Elvish Mystic
- 1 Fyndhorn Elves
- 1 Ignoble Hierarch
- 1 Llanowar Elves
- 1 Keen-Eyed Curator
Sorceries (9)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (6)
Lands (39)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blightstep Pathway
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Blooming Marsh
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Commercial District
- 1 Copperline Gorge
- 1 Dryad Arbor
- 1 Forest
- 1 Grove of the Burnwillows
- 1 Karplusan Forest
- 1 Lazotep Quarry
- 1 Llanowar Wastes
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Overgrown Tomb
- 1 Pendelhaven
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest
- 1 Starting Town
- 1 Stomping Ground
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Taiga
- 1 Underground Mortuary
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Wastewood Verge
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
